Wednesday, October 06, 2010

*cough* dusty in here... somebody open a window...

So yeah, I'm firing up the blog now that we're a month away from another big election.

Hopefully it will cut down on me posting an annoying amount of political stuff on FB. I hope so anyhow. If I could keep it to posting, say, 3 or 4 things a day there, that would be good...

My first shockingly radical political thought has to do with health care reform, of course. I'm on this mailing list of a bunch of cranky doctors, most of whom are strongly opposed to the health care reform law. Oh, there are a few hippies who think it's a good thing to address the issue of millions of uninsured, but many of these docs are just aghast that the government is going to take some steps that might affect their income--ooops, sorry, interfere with the doctor/patient relationship.

What really strikes me is not that a bunch of older physicians who are set in their ways and are quite comfortable with the system as it is are opposing change. What strikes me is that after spending 30-plus years complaining about health insurers and how they are the source of all evil in the world, many of these docs now have turned around and are defending health insurance companies against the ravages of government-controlled health reforms. It really is a head-spinning turn of events.